Terror Cannot Be Fought With Dishonesty

There are a variety of reasons why people do these things. Some of them are potentially religious-based.
Attorney General Eric Holder before the House Judiciary Committee, May 13

In Terror--And Candor, Charles Krauthammer writes about Obama's refusal to connect the dots:

Indeed, Islamist fundamentalism is not only a risk factor. It is the risk factor, the common denominator linking all the great terror attacks of this century — from 9/11 to Mumbai, from Fort Hood to Times Square, from London to Madrid to Bali. The attackers were of various national origin, occupation, age, social class, native tongue, and race. The one thing that united them was the jihadist vision in whose name they acted.

Read the whole thing.

Instead, we are reduced to talking about "overseas contingency operations" and "man-caused disasters"--and in the process, drawn into an ever increasing cycle of absurdity and cowardice.

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